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The failures of President Joe Biden’s first year in office are obvious to all. Inflation is raging. COVID is raging. Crime is spiking in some big citi...

Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Glenn Youngkin is a mild-mannered Republican with a hedge-fund background who ran for governor in a blue state. Despite almost no polit...

Olean native Andrew McCarthy announced plans in April to run for Congress in the current 23rd Congressional District, where Rep. Tom Reed had announce...

Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Georgia Tuesday to push their party’s bill to federalize U.S. election procedures on ...

ALBANY (TNS) — Lawmakers started the new year with a thumbs down for redistricting maps and made election-related bills their top priority Monday as t...

ALBANY — Republicans sued Monday to prevent noncitizens from voting in New York City elections under a new local law . The law allows more than 800,00...

The Constitution must be defended — except when it must be jettisoned for convenience. We’ve heard much upon the anniversary of January 6 about how Do...

When it comes to prognostication, my favorite philosopher has always been the eminent Lawrence Peter Berra. “It’s tough to make predictions,” Yogi fam...

It’s an election year — and Americans will be voting sooner than many people may realize. The first primary election is in Texas on March 1, fewer tha...

For the last year, we’ve heard one commentator after another tell us that American democracy is in crisis. The source of that crisis, we are told, is ...

On Jan. 6, 2021, rioters seeking to disrupt the counting of electoral votes breached the U.S. Capitol and rampaged for hours before order was restored...

Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for C...

ALBANY (TNS) — In six months as GOP conference leader, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik has used her microphone to broadcast a message of a nation in crisis, ...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed a bill on Wednesday that would have required school districts to post information about textbooks,...

Former President Donald Trump, in exile at Mar-a-Lago, isn’t acting much like a retiree. A week ago, he announced that his proposed media venture, Tru...

ALBANY — All five Democrats who had announced campaigns to succeed Letitia James as New York’s attorney general have now withdrawn from the race after...